A new technique for analyzing suspicious breast tissue that eliminates the need for a surgical biopsy is now being offered at the UB Breast Diagnostic Center, affiliated with the university¹s national Women¹s Health Initiative clinical trial center in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Physicians are reluctant to follow the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics and suggest that parents put infants to bed on their backs as a way of reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), new research from the University at Buffalo has shown.

"Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida," a new book by literary scholar Rodolphe Gasché, explores the work of the consummately difficult French philosopher who initiated the concept of "deconstruction," the wide-ranging critique of the possibility of coherent meaning in language.

A project to retrofit the historic U.S. Court of Appeals building in San Francisco with an innovative earthquake-engineering technology has won the General Services Administration's National Design Award in Engineering, Technology and Innovation.

A turbulence theory developed by University at Buffalo researchers about how flows adjust near a surface and disputing a theory that has been the standard for 50 years is generating interest among mechanical and aerospace engineers.

Jerome J. Schentag, Pharm.D., professor of pharmaceutics at the University at Buffalo, will receive the Stimulation of Research Award from the American Pharmaceutical Association at the association's annual meeting next month.